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Edgar Morgenroth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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THE REGIONAL DIMENSION OF TAXES AND Public Expenditure IN IRELAND
Regional Studies, 2010Co-Authors: Edgar MorgenrothAbstract:Abstract: In Ireland as in many other countries there has been an ongoing debate on the nature, degree and trends of regional imbalances. However, relatively little is known about the effects of policies at the regional level in Ireland. This paper considers two aspects of Public policy namely the fiscal system and Public Expenditure. In particular regional government accounts are constructed, which identify the level of taxation, subsidisation and Public Expenditure at the regional level. The analysis of this data confirms that the fiscal system does reduce relative income differences in Ireland. Furthermore there are substantial resource transfers across regions.
Martin Knapp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Public Expenditure costs of carers leaving employment in England, 2015/2016.
Health & Social Care in The Community, 2017Co-Authors: Linda Pickard, Derek King, Nicola Brimblecombe, Martin KnappAbstract:In the context of global population ageing, the reconciliation of employment and unpaid caring is becoming an important social issue. The estimation of the Public Expenditure costs of carers leaving employment is a valuable measure that is of considerable interest to policy-makers. In 2012, the Personal Social Services Research Unit estimated that the Public Expenditure costs of unpaid carers leaving employment in England were approximately £1.3 billion a year, based on the costs of Carer’s Allowance and lost tax revenues on forgone incomes. However, this figure was known to be an underestimate partly because it did not include other key benefits that carers who have given up work to care may receive. This paper presents a new estimate of the Public Expenditure costs of carers leaving employment. Key sources of information are the 2009/10 Survey of Carers in Households, 2011 Census and 2015/2016 costs data. As well as Carer’s Allowance, the estimate also now includes the costs of other benefits that carers leaving work may receive, namely, Income Support and Housing Benefit. The results show that the estimated numbers of carers who have left employment because of caring have increased from approximately 315,000 to 345,000. Due mainly to the inclusion of a wider range of benefits, the Public Expenditure costs of carers leaving employment in England are now estimated at £2.9 billion a year. The new estimate comprises £1.7 billion in social security benefits paid to people who have left their jobs because of unpaid caring, plus another £1.2 billion in taxes forgone on this group’s lost earnings. The paper concludes that, if there was greater Public investment in social care, such as ‘replacement care’ to support carers in employment, and fewer carers then left employment, Public spending on benefits would be lower and revenues from taxation would be higher.
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Public Expenditure costs of carers leaving employment in england 2015 2016
LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 2017Co-Authors: Linda Pickard, Derek King, Nicola Brimblecombe, Martin KnappAbstract:In the context of global population ageing, the reconciliation of employment and unpaid caring is becoming an important social issue. The estimation of the Public Expenditure costs of carers leaving employment is a valuable measure that is of considerable interest to policy-makers. In 2012, the Personal Social Services Research Unit estimated that the Public Expenditure costs of unpaid carers leaving employment in England were approximately £1.3 billion a year, based on the costs of Carer’s Allowance and lost tax revenues on forgone incomes. However, this figure was known to be an underestimate partly because it did not include other key benefits that carers who have given up work to care may receive. This paper presents a new estimate of the Public Expenditure costs of carers leaving employment. Key sources of information are the 2009/10 Survey of Carers in Households, 2011 Census and 2015/2016 costs data. As well as Carer’s Allowance, the estimate also now includes the costs of other benefits that carers leaving work may receive, namely, Income Support and Housing Benefit. The results show that the estimated numbers of carers who have left employment because of caring have increased from approximately 315,000 to 345,000. Due mainly to the inclusion of a wider range of benefits, the Public Expenditure costs of carers leaving employment in England are now estimated at £2.9 billion a year. The new estimate comprises £1.7 billion in social security benefits paid to people who have left their jobs because of unpaid caring, plus another £1.2 billion in taxes forgone on this group’s lost earnings. The paper concludes that, if there was greater Public investment in social care, such as ‘replacement care’ to support carers in employment, and fewer carers then left employment, Public spending on benefits would be lower and revenues from taxation would be higher.
David Heald - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Why is transparency about Public Expenditure so elusive
International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2012Co-Authors: David HealdAbstract:Fiscal transparency is fundamentally important but difficult to achieve. The conceptualization of transparency has to be more sophisticated than current rhetoric implies. Analytical tools relating to the generic concept of transparency can be applied to Public Expenditure. Achieving transparency about Public Expenditure presents challenges that require explicit strategies in the context of what can be very different sets of local conditions. This article identifies the specific meaning of transparency about Public Expenditure, defined in terms of the four directions of transparency: inwards, outwards, upwards and downwards. It identifies barriers to the effective transparency of Public Expenditure, characterizing these as intrinsic or constructed. Tackling these barriers, especially those constructed by policy actors, constitutes a route towards more effective transparency, not only about Public Expenditure itself but about surrogates for it. It is not just quantity that matters: different varieties of tr...
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The Regional Dimension of Public Expenditure in England
Regional Studies, 2002Co-Authors: David Heald, John ShortAbstract:Public Expenditure in the UK has a location dimension with respect to the devolved arrangements for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There is no location dimension to the allocation of Public Expenditure to the regions of England. Nevertheless, whether planned or not, Public Expenditure impacts on the regions through the provision of services and associated employment and income generation. This paper examines the methodological issues in assigning Public Expenditure to countries and regions, and reviews existing and past patterns of Public Expenditure in English regions. It then considers the relevance of this analysis to policy options for introducing an explicit regional dimension to the Public Expenditure allocation mechanism in England. Paradoxically, English regional devolution is potentially more radical in its implications, in terms of rupturing existing allocative mechanisms that lead to flows of Expenditure, than devolution in the territories (where it can be interpreted as putting democrat...
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TERRITORIAL Public Expenditure IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Public Administration, 1994Co-Authors: David HealdAbstract:Although the devolution plans of the 1970s were abandoned, those debates had far-reaching consequences for the determination of relative Public Expenditure levels in the United Kingdom. The Barnett formula (10:5:85) of 1978 provided that increases in Public Expenditure in Scotland and in Wales for specific services within the territorial blocks would be determined according to the formula consequences of changes in equivalent English Expenditure. A parallel formula allocated 2.75 per cent of the change in equivalent Expenditure in Great Britain to Northern Ireland. The essential distinction is between base Expenditure (whose current levels are carried forward) and incremental Expenditure (which is determined by formula). The predicted convergence of block Expenditure relatives on the LJK per capita average was frustrated by formula bypass, and in Scotland by relative population decline. The background to the 1992 recalibration of the Barnett formula (10.66:6.02100.00 and Northern Ireland 2.87 per cent) is analysed. Territorial block Expenditure is set within the structure of territorial Public Expenditure aggregates, and evidence is assembled on identifiable Public Expenditure relatives between countries and by English region.
Godfrey A. Pirotta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Politics of Public Expenditure in Malta
Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 2008Co-Authors: Maurice Mullard, Godfrey A. PirottaAbstract:Abstract This study offers an ‘insider’ perspective on the politics of Public Expenditure in Malta between 1996 and 2001 focusing on a five year period which, in a number of ways, represented a major watershed in the history of Malta's politics. Two elections led to changes of government and to the adoption of two radically different styles of Public Expenditure management. A short period of Labour Party Government, distinguished by comparatively tight Public Expenditure control, was swiftly followed by the return of the Nationalist Party. In contrast, the Nationalist Government downgraded the importance of Public Expenditure control. These developments are found to be indicative of a characteristic pattern of politics defined by clientelism. Outcomes are frequently paradoxical. Analysis of Public Expenditure evidence reveals that government room for manoeuvre can be substantial at programme level but is significantly more limited and constrained in relation to overall Expenditure parameters.
Domenicantonio Fausto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Public Expenditure in Italian Public finance theory
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2010Co-Authors: Domenicantonio FaustoAbstract:Abstract This paper examines Public Expenditure in the Italian Public finance literature between the end of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Three aspects are considered: the factors that determine the growth of Public Expenditure; integration of the tax and Expenditure sides in the theory of shifting and incidence of taxation; and the general productivity of Public Expenditure. The main conclusion of the paper is that Italian economists have examined the problem of Public finance in a general context, taking into consideration both taxes and Public Expenditure at the same time.
